reading and interacting with poetry
by Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Can Poetry be Irenic?
A number of papers will discuss poetry and peace at the upcoming "Can Literature and the Arts be Irenic?" at the University of Caen, November 18-19, 2010.
Poetry workshop: Skin
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Rachael Boast discovers some ingenious responses to this month's exercise,
and offers some radical feedback
The six poems I settled on for a detailed res...
A Caravan of Contraband Books
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Responding to the adoption of a new controversial law in Arizona banning
ethnic studies from the state’s public school curriculum, Librotraficanté—a
coalit...
Sarah de Leeuw, geographies of a lover
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*53055’06.72”N 122043’39.25”W*
this tender wound is my missing your body, standing on a lake shore with
the sun at my back, my shadow-outline fractured i...
William Ford: “Dragging at Richmond”
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The VPR Poem of the Week is William Ford’s “Dragging at Richmond,” which
appeared in the Spring/Summer 2011 issue (Volume XII, Number 2) of Valparaiso
Poet...
Poems While You Wait by Kathleen Rooney
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It is ten o’clock on Sunday morning, and sunlight is streaming into the
River East Art Center in Chicago, Illinois. Dave Landsberger, Eric
Plattner, and ...
A Lonesome Place on Bodmin Moor
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Some of my readers will know that we have been living in the English
Midlands since 2003, having moved there from Cornwall when my husband
changed his job....
Art as Therapy/Shameless Plug
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I’ve been surprised lately by learning about things that happened in my
hometown of Cleveland (Ohio) when I was a kid. The biggest surprise came in
the for...
New Rules For Tipping at the Airport Hilton
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Tip the guy opening the door because he doesn’t wear a hat.
Tip the beautiful woman waiting with you at the elevator
because she found your wallet beside the...
On the feast of Saint Daniel
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December 11, 2011 was a day not missed by many Geoffrey Hill readers in
London. Hill gave a poetry reading at Southbank Center that featured poems
from *C...
Other people’s poems
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Joey Connolly, currently interning at Carcanet and also one of the editors
of the gorgeously named new poetry/arts magazine Kaffeeklatsch (click here
to vi...
Catching Up with Rimbaud
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Recently finished a short bio of Arthur Rimbaud by Edmund White, which led
me to check out the Steinmetz biography. Wildly entertaining. And now i
want to ...
Recent Publications of Reginald Shepherd's Work
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I suppose I should have publicized these a bit earlier, but I don't always
have it completely together lately. In any case, there have been a number
of pub...
THE COMPLETE POETRYPOLITIC
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Click on the following poets and works to revisit the words and the voices
featured from September 15th through November 4th, 2008: Day 1 • Monday,
Septemb...
The Coming of the Wopoli
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The Verb have done a wonderful job of my short play, The Coming of the
Wopoli, available online for the next 6 days, broadcast on Radio 3 last
night.I’ve a...
Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec teaches English at the University of Caen and the Institut Catholique in Paris. She is co-editor of "La poésie de Geoffrey Hill et la modernité" (L'Harmattan, 2007).
Her research interests include Contemporary Poetry, American Literature, especially Literature in conjunction with Memory, History, Religion, and War.